Clothespin Snowflakes {Handmade Ornament No.25}

Happy Friday my friends. This week has quickly passed by – with just one more day to go! I have one last handmade ornament to share today and they are so easy – you could even add them to your to-do before the holiday arrives.
If you don’t have a stash of wooden clothespins they can found at any dollar store and easily transformed into pretty snowflakes. I used a few to embellish some packages though these can easily be made into ornaments or used in number of different decor ideas as well {I like that snowflakes can be left out throughout the winter and a last a little longer than other seasonal decor}Materials Needed:
Wooden Clothespins {8 total for one snowflake}
Hot Glue{optional} paint, glitter – anything to embellish
Begin by taking apart 8 wooden clothespins. The wooden slats easily slide right out of the metal spring with a little maneuvering.
Each clothespin will give you two wooden pieces – simply align the flat sides of these two pieces and hot glue together.

To start the snowflake shape, take two of the ‘glued’ pieces and hot glue them together along the small angle end, as shown above.

Continue with two more ‘glued’ pieces until you have an “x” shape.

Insert the remaining four ‘glued’ pieces into each corner and secure with more hot glue.

{if you are making these into ornaments – slide a piece of thread or ribbon in between the last two pieces, before they are glued together, to create the hanger}

Your snowflake is complete and ready to embellish.

Since these are made of wood they can be embellished a number of different ways – though I think they are even pretty left plain and natural.

I used a couple as gift toppers this year since it went along with one of the gift wrap patterns.

Oh My Gosh, I love these!!! I think I am going to make some as soon as Christmas is over so that I will have them for the next year. Did you see on HGTV, on Color Splash Christmas the closepin artist? He made amazing things all with closepins.

Hi Alana, I used a regular hot glue gun on the snowflakes and they have all held up really well. I still have the ones that were made a few years ago. The glue sticks were high temp – but I’m not sure that makes any difference. If the glue you are using is not working – you may want to try and scuff the surface of the clothespin a little with sandpaper – prior to gluing. The only thing I can think of is that there may be some sort of clear coating on the clothespin preventing the glue from adhering properly.

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